Auden group

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In the 1930s, Britain was in a period of social crisis, with the after effects of The Great War still felt and another world war looking likely. The working classes were dissatisfied with what they saw as a ruling bourgeois society and a series of failed social reforms. This time of crisis brought with it a new trend for collective identities, and the Auden Group, predominantly a journalistic tool (evident since 1936), was one of these. Also known as Thirties Poets, the group which centred around Auden and Isherwood represented a new, more experimental literary style. The Auden Group, in fact never worked together as a whole, and were connected together mainly by their similar ages, Oxbridge education, Socialist leanings social feelings, and embarrassment about their own middle class origins. The term continues to be used to categorise a wide range of cultural output from the 1930s, including literature, theatre, music and art.